Whiffletree-hook.



PATENTED JULY 26, 1904,

A. R. OTTERMAN. WHIPPLBTRBE HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 6, 1903.

NO MODEL.

No. 766,114. Patented July 26, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

ARTHUR R. OTTERMAN, OF BRIDG-EVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOROF ONE-HALF TO THE OTTERMAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, A CORPO- RATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

WHlFFLETREE-HOOK- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,114, dated July 26, 1904.

Application filed May 6,1903. Serial No. 155,810. (No modelfl To all whont it HLCLZ/ concern.- bodying two cheek-pieces 3, each of which Be it known that I, ARTHUR R. OTIERMAN, a is provided with notches or recesses 4E. The citizen of the United States of America. residpivot pin or bolt 5, which fastens the lugs 2 ing at Bridgeville, in the county of Allegheny to the U-shaped piece, also secures the hook and State of Pennsylvania, have invented cer- 6, which may, if desired, be made with a T- tain new and useful Improvements in Hooks shaped end 7, as shown in this view.

for l/Vhiffietrees, &c., of which the following In Fig. 2 I show the band I having the 1s a specification, reference being had therein cheek-pieces 3 formed integral therewith, to the accompanying drawings. these cheek-piecesbemg provided withnotches IO Thisinventionrelatestocertainnewanduse- A and having the same form of hook 6 as tul improvements in hooks for whitlletrees, shown in Fig. l. neck-yokes, and other analogous purposes; In Fig. 3 substantially the same form of and the object of the invention is to construct device attached to the neck-yoke A is shown a simple, cheap, and eiiective hook in which as that employed in device shown in Fig. 1,

5 the ring or link of the attaching connection a different form of hook, however, being em- 5 when placed in engagement with the hook ployed in lieu of the hook 6, as seen in Figs. may be effectually prevented from accidental 1 and 2. It is understood that wherein I use disengagement therefrom. the term cheek-pieces I include the con- Briefly described, the invention comprises struction which shows these cheekpieces 20 an encircling member adapted to be secured formed integral with the band or separate 7 to the neck-yoke, whifiietree, or like device, pieces secured thereto, as shown in Figs. 1 and which member carries a pair of parallel and 3. The hook 7 (shown in Fig. 3) is given cheek-pieces provided at their outer edge with a partial coil in order to bring its free end notches or recesses into which the ring or link over to one side of the shank of the hook.

5 is adapted to be inserted in order to permit a By the construction herein shown it will be swinging movement of the hook in order to observed that the long arm of the hook is pivengage the latter in said ring or link. The oted directly in the rear of the recesses 4: of hook member is pivotally secured between the forwmrdly-projecting cheek-pieces 3, and the two parallel cheek-pieces, and when the therefore when the hook is in its operative 3 book is in its extended position the pivoted position the said long arm will lie directly arm or leg of the hook is in alinement with between and in vertical alinement with said the notches made in the cheek-pieces. recesses, so as to practically close the same,

In describing the invention in detail ret'eror, in other words, this arrangement will preence is had to the accompanying drawings, vent the link or the like engaged by the hook 35 formingapart of this specification, andwherefrom gaining access thereto. As the long 5 in like characters of reference indicate like arm projects forwardly of and in alinement partsthroughout the several views, in which with the recesses of the cheek-plates, the

Figure 1 is a detail perspective view of a curved portion of the hook and the other arm part of the neck-yoke with my improved hook thereof is necessarily normally arranged to secured thereto. Fig. 2 is a like view of a one side of said recesses. 9 modified form of construction. Fig. 3 is a It will be noted that various changes may similar view of another form of construction be made in the details of construction without as employed on the center of a neck-yoke. departing from the general spirit of my in- My invention embodies in its construction vention. 45 an encircling band for embracing the neck- Having fully described my invention, what yoke, whifiletree, or the like at the center Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters thereof and at the ends, and in the construc- Patent, is tion shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings the band 1. In combination with a band having par- 1 has extended lugs 2 at its ends which emallel cheek-pieces formed with alining re- 5 brace the substantially U-shaped piece emcesses, a hook having an arm pivoted between said cheek-pieces in the rear of the recesses recesses thereof and extending forwardly be:

thereof, said arm normally extending between tween said recesses and in alinement therewith said recesses and being in alinement therewhereby the bent portion and the last-named With. arm of said hook will normally lie to one side I5 5 2. In combination With a band having parof said recesses.

allel cheek-pieces formed in their forward In testimonywhereofI affix mysignature in edges With alining recesses, a hook member the presence of two Witnesses.

comprising an arm bent at its outer end and ARTHUR R. OTTERMAN. terminating in a rearwardly-extending arm, Witnesses:

10 said first-named arm being pivoted between i A. M. WILSON, the cheek-pieces at a point in the rear of the E. E. POTTER. 

